Henry Rollins Quotes

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

If you work, you should not be poor.

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.

The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of the working poor.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.